gave that first speech in 2008. as you point out, 200,000 europeans turned out to see him then. we're expecting well below 10,000 to see him today. he is still popular here, but there is a lot of rage with the u.s. right now because of drone strikes. because of the nsa surveillance. these are topics the president had to address in a press c conference he held with germany's chancellor just a few hours ago and he was on the defensive. carol? >> i want to ask dana bash about that very topic. dana, i was reading some german newspapers online last night and it said that the german people are really upset about the nsa controversy because they have a history with the secret police. t this sort of reminds them about this and in the german's mind, the nsa is collecting their phone records and they're listening to their phone calls. will the president be forced to say something about that in his speech today? >> unclear if he's going to say it in his speech, but jessica

just noted he was on the defensive in a press conference he had not too long ago earlier today with the german chancellor, angela merkel who was very clear that she was going to represent the anger of her people in germany about these secret programs. because we're not just talking about surveillance here in the united states. the thing that germans are most upset about is the fact that one of the programs deals with internet users abroad in germany, around europe, around the world. so, listen to what the president said in his defense of these programs. >> what i explained to chancellor merkel is that i came into office, committed to protecting the american people, but also committed to our values and our ideals and one of our highest ideals is civil liberties and privacy and i was a critic of the previous administration for those occasions in which i felt they

had violated our values and i came in with a healthy skepticism. >> came in with a healthy skepticism. he insists, though, that he had made sure more safeguards in place and more oversight. the issue that he's going to have with the germans is the same issues he has with americans. sort of take my word for it kind of situation. still, much of these programs is classified. so, they can't discuss the details that allow them to feel, they say, so comfortable. but, it really is part of the reason, jessica just mentioned, that seems thing to have changed. it's important part in germany with regard to the reception that the president is getting. people were so excited about this new politician in america who is idealistic, but it seems he is not only continuing the programs of president bush, some of the programs that they didn't like. maybe even making them more deep. >> so, in light of that, let's bring in gloria borger, our

chief political analyst. berlin known for big speeches from u.s. presidents. but in light of all the controversies that jessica and dana just mentioned that are swirling around this president, will obama's remarks resignate? >> look, he's not the rock star he was when he was running for the presidency and had 200,000 people out there swooning over him, but he does have an over 80% approval rate still in germany. and, so, he's a little bit more down to earth now as jessica and dana pointed out. people are more critical of him and he also had a little bit of problem with angela merkel. he's been critical of her austerity program over in germany. so, i think that people are still going to listen to president obama. he's still popular. as dana and jessica point out, he spoke today about the nsa surveillance program. he spoke about that publicly.

and he spoke with merkel about it privately. so, he's not candidate obama. he's now president obama. but presidents of the united states go to the brandenberg gate to speak about big things. to speak about the post-war world. that is exactly what this president is going to do today. talk about cutting the nuclear arsenal. it is going to be a large, thematic speech as it was back in 2008, but it's going to be tempered by the experiences of a president who's been in office and who has a little bit of a different view of the world. >> okay. let's go back to jessica yellin and talk about that very thing. i'm sure, jessica, you talked to them and maybe you had a chance to talk to some people who are going to listen to the president's speech in a few minutes or so. what are they saying to you? >> well, carol, there is

interest that the president is here, but it's happening in the middle of the day here. and people are probably likely to pick it up on the evening news here. more than likely to watch it in realtime. he is, as gloria said, not quite the rock star he was back in the day. the general sense here is that they still think that president obama is still admired here. as gloria knows his approval numbers are still high and, again, there is a sense that he hasn't quite lived up to that exuberant expectation they had for him during the campaign. very similar to his experience in the u.s. where there were these sky high expectations among his fan base and then some significant disappointment there. so, some, a bit of a let down among some of the people. but, also, interest in what he

has to say. disappointment also in europe that the u.s. has shifted its focus from primarily europe on to asia. and questioned whether the president doesn't value europe as much as past presidents have and president obama will make clear, we're told, in this speech that the bond with europe is still important to the u.s. and deep and timeless, et cetera. that's part of the important message he wants to convey to germans and to europe in this speech. that's very important. i have one bit of fun information, which is, one of the people that will be attending this speech is the original candy bomber. now, the candy bomber, you have to go back about 65 years to the berlin airlift and that's when the wall came down and the west had to fly in supplies to help feed some of the east germans and the candy bomber was a pilot who would drop candy to the children behind the wall and would sometimes fly in such a way that the wings would flap. so, the candy bomber will be

there. we're told. i think the candy bomber is 92 years old at the east side of the brandenburg gate to hear the first u.s. president ever speak there, carol. >> that's awesome. going back to the president's speech -- >> nice, right? >> really nice. let's go back to gloria borger, i want to talk about most of the content of the president's speech. he's going to be talking mostly about nuclear weapons. why choose that topic, gloria? >> because it's big and it's important and because if it comes to pass, it will be historic. and this is a place the brandenburg gate where presidents come to give big speeches and talk about big ideas. and this is something that the defense secretary spoke about and i would also point out was much criticized for in his confirmation hearings about wanting to reduce the nuclear arsenal. and this is something that the president and the administration feel kind of meets the moment. one other thing that is sort of

interesting to me. candidate obama, if you recall, wanted to speak at the bra brandenburg gate and angela merkel said, you're not president yet. you can't do that. they moved the venue somewhere else where they had that huge 200,000-person crowd. so, she kind of owed him this speech here at the gate. as former presidents have had. and i just think it's, it's, it's a venue where you have to kind of match the size of it and the importance of what this venue has meant to past american presidents. you know, ronald reagan, tear down the wall. now, the president has just points out will be facing in a direction that ronald reagan could not have faced. so, you know, i think it's -- you know, it's -- i think he's trying to match history, if you will. >> still, dana, you would think maybe he would talk about the global economy because, you

know, germany's still very much struggling with its economy. it's so much tied to the united states. why not talk about that? >> well, it's hard to imagine it's not going to be at a least implicit in his speech. but one of the things that people may not know about president obama is that when he was here in the capital, when he was senator obama, that issue, the nuclear issue, was something on the top of his priority list. in fact, when he was campaigning in 2008 and making the point when he got to the general election that he could work across the aisle with republicans. one of the examples he could give is working with former indiana republican on the nuclear issue. that they even traveled together on it. this is actually something, he wasn't here very long as a senator. he didn't even finish his first term, but this is something when he was here briefly he did focus on. the other quick thing i want to point out, gloria talking about the big crowd of 2008 and the much smaller crowd here now that

he's president. remember, in 2008, the mccain campaign used that very speech, the backdrop of the speech as an a ad. maybe one of the most memorable ads against president obama or candidate obama in 2008 comparing him to paris hilton. maybe in 2013 people might not remember who paris hilton is. basically saying he is a rock star. >> dana bash, gloria borger, we are going to leave berlin for a second. we understand the president is going to speak and then angela merkel will speak next and then president obama a will take the stage. when president obama takes the stage, of course, we'll bring you back to the brandenburg gate. other news at ten minutes past the hour. was it an accident or deliberate? a new documentary suggest twa flight 800 was brought down on purpose. it features six members of the accident investigation board.

producers say those investigators will break their silence on the 1996 crash and they want the ntsb to reopen the investigation. renee marsh is in washington with more for you. good morning, renee. >> good morning, carol. you know, the theory, sinister forces brought down this plane isn't new, but the interesting twist this morning is who is making the claim. former accident investigators say they have evidence to prove this was no accident. it was a crash as horrific as it was mysterious. twa flight 800 explodes in mid-air in 1996 off the coast of long island. >> blew up in the air and then we saw two fireballs go down into the water. >> all 230 on board the 747 dead. the cause after a four-year, 17,000-page ntsb investigation a spark from faulty wiring leading to the center fuel tank. but now six retired members of

the original investigation team are breaking their silence. in a new documentary, they are challenging the ntsb's findings and calling for the investigation to be reopened. >> i was convinced that the part had been damaged by a high explosion because of the entrance hole and the exit hole. >> these former investigators whose credential range from ntsb, twa and airline pilot union and forensic experts claim that radar and forensic evidence shows that the wiring was not the cause of the crash. what would your analysis have been? >> the primary, the primary conclusion was the explosive forces came from outside the airplane, not the center fuel tank. >> would that statement have been in your analysis? >> if i got the right one. >> the agenda was that this is an accident, make it so.

>> these investigators say the evidence they examined proves that one or more explosions outside the aircraft caused the crash. however, they don't speculate about the source of the explosions. among the theories considered and rejected by the ntsb at the time was that a missile was responsible. the filmmakers plan to petition the ntsb to reopen the investigation. in a statement, the ntsb left that possibility open if new evidence is uncovered saying investigators and staff spent an enormous amount of time reviewing documenting and analyzing facts and data while the ntsb rarely reinvestigates issues that have already been examined. our investigations are never closed and we can review any new information not previously considered by the board. and, carol, just a short time ago, i did have the chance to speak with one of the producers of this documentary. i asked him, what kind of reaction has he received from

victim's families. he said there are some victims' families who support the film. there are others who don't support the film. the documentary will premiere next month on the 17th anniversary of this crash. carol? >> let's say new evidence is admitted. how long would it take the ntsb to reopen the investigation? >> well, as it stands right now, we know that the ntsb says they have not received this petition. but if and when they do and we expect that they will receive it, it takes roughly 60 days before they come to a determination, although there is really no hard and fast deadline. it could take longer than that. but on average 60 days. >> we'll see, renee marsh reporting live from d.c. this morning. it's hard to imagine, but for the second time in six weeks, the story of an ohio woman and her daughter now free after accusations they were held captive inside a home for more than a year. pamela brown is in ashland, ohio, with more on this

disturbing details. good morning, pamela. >> well, good morning to you, carol. so many disturbing details in this story. authorities say the suspects preyed on this mother's vulnerability and used her daughter against her as a way to keep her as their personal slave and it was all uncovered after a simple shoplifting incident. inside this house an ohio woman and her child deprived of their freedom, dignity and basic needs for a year and a half, according to federal authorities. >> these individuals deprived this woman and her child of the most fundamental of american rights, freedom. >> this case is nothing less than a case of modern day slavery. >> reporter: 26-year-old jordy callahan and his girlfriend jessica hunt and their friend, daniel brown all charged with imprisoning a mentally disabled woman and her child. prosecutors say she was forced to do household chores and threatened with pit bulls and a python and, according to a law

enforcement source, she and her daughter were sometimes forced to eat dog food. >> talking about people who were locked in rooms, forced to work all the time. people who were threatened and beatened and injured. >> reporter: according to court documents, she was also questioned at gunpoint and one of her alleged captors took out his knife and threatened to cut her finger off. she visited the emergency room at least three times between 2011 and 2012 with a variety of injuries. ashland police say they were tipped off after she was arrested for trying to steal a candy bar. when police showed up at the home, callahan allegedly showed them video of her beating her daughter, but she says she was forced to do so by callahan and hunt. on piers morgan's show, his mother denies the allegations. >> the girl, the supposedly victim had went where she wanted to go whenever she wanted to go. >> reporter: this comes on the heels of another disturbing

kidnapping case. the shockish rescue of three women held for a decade by ariel castro. both cases of alleged abuse stunning their neighbors. left wondering how this could be happening in their backyards. >> according to a law enforcement source i spoke with, the victims knew the suspects in this case before they were held captive. carol, so often the question in these trafficking cases is why didn't they run away? why didn't they ask for help, especially knowing that she ran errands for the suspects. but we're told by authorities that her daughter was held hostage inside the home so that she was forced to come back. we spoke to neighbors this morning and they're all in shock about this and they said when they heard about the ariel castro case in cleveland, they couldn't believe that happened and now it's happening in their own backyard. certainly very disturbing for neighbors here. >> you got that right. pamela brown reporting from ashland, ohio, this morning.

take you back to berlin, germany. this is the mayor of berlin speaking right now. after he speaks angela merkel will speak, the leader of germany and then president obama will take the podium and perhaps give a speech of historical significance at the brandenburg wall. you can see the crowd. they were doing the wave a short time ago before the three politicians walked on stage. very hot in berlin this morning. people are fanning themselves and you can see they're waving american and german flags. that's the mayor of berlin speaking. we're going to take a quick break. we'll be right back. if there was a pill

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you can see here in berlin, germany. angela merkel is at the podium. she is due to speak five or six minutes. when our president begins speaking, of course, we'll take you back to the brandenburg gate. right now check the top stories. strong winds could make the situation even uglier today for crews battling an out of control wildfire 100 miles west of phoenix. they know the 500,000 acre fire was caused by a person but still looking into exactly how that person started the fire. the fire is zero% contained. a tornado touched down

between two airport runways. the twister packs winds around 97 miles per hour. a few planes diverted, but no reports of damage or injuries. in cleveland, ohio, ariel castro back in court for a pretrial hearing. accused of kidnapping three women and keeping them locked inside his house for nine years. castro pleaded not guilty to hundreds of charges. an oil filter problem forces a tokyo-bound united flight to make an emergency landing in seattle. boeing just put the dreamliner back in the air less than a month ago. the latest trouble for boeing' dreamliner troubled earlier this year after two overheated battery incidents. they redesigned and reinstalled new battery systems. aaron hernandez has been questioned about a murder. a body was found about a mile from his massachusetts home. police say they do not consider hernandez a suspect, but a

vehicle rented in hernandez's name is believed to be a key piece of the murder investigation. a big victory for environmental activists in los angeles. the "l.a. times" reports the city council has voted to ban single use plastic bags in stores that sell groceries. also mandates customers be charged 10 cents per paper bag if they do not bring their own reusable totes. a second vote by the council and mayor signature needed before that ban takes effect next year. turning now to your money, chrysler on its recall refusal and it will now recall more than a million jeep grand cheeries and jeep liberties. christine romans following the story from new york. why did chrysler change its mind? >> it's recalling a smaller number than the government originally wanted. it fought it for two weeks and at the 11th hour changed course

and agreed to recall a smaller number of jeeps. this is what they are, 1993 to 1998 jeep grand jerry and the 2002 to 2007 liberty. not a recall, but customer service action. chrysler is calling it. 1.1 million jeeps from 1999 to 2004. those will get a visual inspection. all these cars will get a visual inspection and won't necessarily have any work done on them. now, the government has said there were too many fire incidents with these cars, the way that the fuel tank is in the back behind the, you know, behind the axle where the fuel tank was located and chrysler always said nothing wrong with these cars. in this agreement, chrysler doesn't have to admit anything is wrong with them, carol. in fact, it says they are safe and they are not defected and among the safest in the peer group. the government wins because chrysler relents on saying no to a recall and many of these cars

will get into a dealership and be inspected and chrysler will not necessarily have to perform work on all of them and if they do perform work, it will be basically a trailer hitch that they're going to install or replace on the back to put more distance between the fuel tank and the car that is running into the jeep, carol. >> that will do the trick. that's just so stroange. if i have a jeep grand cherry or liberty, what do i do? >> chrysler will alert the owner of the vehicles and tell them what to do. you go to your dealership and there will be an inspection and depending on what it looks like on that assembly whether a trailer hitch that is from a manufacturer, you know, chrysler ought ao parts manufacturer or whether is one or isn't one, they'll decide and tell you what to do. some people in that consumer action group, you know, you're fought going to get a free trailer hitch put on there. for people in the recall, you may find you get a new hitch and the idea, apparently, is that the most distance between the fuel tank and any kind of

high-speed collision that gives just more metal before, between those two things. >> all right. i get it. i do. i think. thank you, christine. >> they both win, but will consumers win? that's where the consumer advocates are scrutinizing this. the government wins. >> christine romans, thank you so much. reporting live from new york. angela merkel, the chancellor of germany, still speaking. president obama due to speak any moment now. we'll take you back to the brandenburg gate. the place where that wall came down. after a break. ou hear and be hed even in stupid loud places. to prove it, we set up our call center right here... [ chirp ] all good? [ chirp ] getty up. seriously, this is really happening! [ cellphone rings ] hello? it's a giant helicopter ma'am. [ male announcer ] get it done [ chirp ]

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today along the fault line where a city was divided speaks to an eternal truth. no wall can stand against the yearning of justice, the yearnings for freedom, the yearnings for peace that burns in the human heart. distinguished guests and especially the people of berlin and germany, thank you for this extraordinarily warm welcome. in fact, it's so warm and i feel so good that i'm going to take off my jacket and anybody else who wants to, feel free to.

we can be a little more informal among friends. as your chancellor mentioned five years ago i had the chance to address as senator. today i'm proud to return as president of the united states. and i bring with me the enduring friendship of the american people, as well as my wife, michelle and malia and sasha. you may notice that they're not here. the last thing they want to do is to listen to another speech from me. so they're out experiencing the beauty and the history of berlin. and this history speaks to us

today. here for thousands of years the people of this land have journeyed from tribe to principality to nation state. through reformation and renowned as a land of poets and thinkers. among them, emmanuel, who taught us that freedom is the unoriginated birth right of man and it belongs to him by force of his humanity. here, for two centuries, this gate stood tall as the world around it convulsed through the rise and fall of empyres and revolutions and republics, art and music and science that reflected the height of human endeavor, but also war and

carnage that exposed the depth of man's cruelty to man. it was here that berliners carved out an island of democracy against the greatest of odds. as already has been mentioned, they were supported by an airlift of hope and we are so honored to be joined by colonel halverson, 92 years old, the original candy bomber. we could not be prouder of him. i hope i look that good, by the way, when i'm 92. during that time, a marshal planned and a north atlantic aalliance protected our people. and those in the neighborhoods and nations to the east drew strength from the knowledge that freedom was possible here in berlin.

that the waves of crackdowns and suppressions might therefore some day be overcome. today, 60 years after they rose up against depression, we remember the east german heroes of june 17th. when the wall finally came down. it was their dreams that were fulfilled. their strength and their passion, their enduring example remind us that for all the power of militaries, for all the authority of governments, it is citizens who choose whether to be defined by a wall or whether to tear it down. we're now surrounded by the symbols of the germany reborn.

rebuild its glistening glass dome and embassy back in its historic home and this square itself, once a desolate no man's land is now open to all. so, while i am not the first american president to come to this gate, i am proud to stand on its eastern side to pay tribute to the past. for throughout all this history, the fate of this city came down to a simple question. will we live free or in chains? under governments that uphold our universal rights or regimes that suppress them. in open societies, the respect, the sanctity of the individual

and our free will or in closed societies that suffocate the soul. as free people, we stated our convictions long ago. as americans, we believe that all men are created equal. with the right to life and liberty and pursuit of happiness. and as germans, you declared in your basic law that the dignity of man is inviolable. around the world, nations have pledged themselves to a universal declaration of human rights, which recognizes the inherent dignity and rights of all members of our human family. and this is what was at stake here in berlin all those years. and because courageous crowds climbed atop that wall.

because corrupt dictatorships gave way to new democracies. because millions across this continent now breathe the fresh air of freedom we can say here in berlin, here in europe, our values won. openness won. tolerance won and freedom won. here in berlin. and yet more than two decades after that triumph, we must acknowledge that there can at times be a complacency among our western democracies. today people often come together in places like this to remember history, not to make it. after all, we face no concrete walls, no barbed wire. there are no tanks poised to cross a border.

no visits to fallout shelters. and sometimes there could be a sense that the great challenges have somehow passed. that brings with it a temptation to turn inward. to think of our own pursuits and not the sweep of history. to believe that we've settled history's accounts. that we can simply enjoy the fruits won by our forbearers. but i come here today, berlin, to say complacency is not the character of great nations. today's threats are not a s stak as they were half a century ago but the struggle for freedom and security and human dignity, that struggle goes on. and i've come here to this city of hope because the tests of our time demand the same fighting spirit that defined berlin a

half century ago. chancellor merkel mentioned that we mark the anniversary of john f. kennedy's stirring defense of freedom embodied in the people of this great city. his pledge of solidarity. echoes through the ages, but, but that's not all that he said that day. less remembered is the challenge that he issued to the crowd before him. let me ask you, he said to those berliners, let me ask you to lift your eyes beyond the dangers of today. and beyond the freedom of merely this city. look, he said, to the day of peace with justice. beyond yourselves and ourselves to all mankind.

president kennedy was taken from us less than six months after he spoke those words. and like so many who died in those decades of division, he did not live to see berlin united and free. instead, he lives forever as a young man in our memory. but his words are timeless because they call upon us to care more about things than just our own self-comfort. about our own city. about our own country. they demand that we embrace the common endeavor of all humanity. and if we lift our eyes as president kennedy called us to do, then we'll recognize that our work is not yet done. for we are not only citizens of america or germany, we are also citizens of the world.

and our fates and fortunes are linked like never before. we may no longer live in fear of global iniilation, but so long as nuclear weapons exist, we are not truly safe. we may strike blows against terrorist networks, but if we ignore the instability and tolerance that fuels extremism, our own freedom will eventually be in danger. we may enjoy a standard of living that is the envy of the world, but so long as hundreds of millions endure thinge agony an empty stomach for the anguish of unemployment, we're not truly prosperous. i say all this here in the heart of europe because our shared past shows that none of these challenges can be met unless we

see ourselves as part of something bigger than our own experience. our alliance is the foundation of global security. our trade and our commerce is the engine of our global economy. our values call upon us to care about the lives of people we will never meet when europe and america lead with our hopes instead of our fears. we do things that no otherer nations can do. no other nations will do. so, we have to lift up our eyes today and consider the day of peace with justice that our generation wants for this world. i'd suggest that peace with justice begins with the example we set here at home. for we know from our own histories that intolerance breeds injustice. whether it's based on race or religion, gender or sexual

orientation. and we are stronger when all our people, no matter who they are or what they look like are granted opportunity. and when our wives and our daughters have the same opportunities as our husbands and our sons. when we respect the faith practiced in our churches and synagogues and our mosques and our temples, we're more secure. when we welcome the immigrant with his talents or her dreams, we are renewed. when we stand up for our gay and lesbian brothers and sisters and treat their love and their rights equally under the law, we defend our own liberty, as well. we are more free when all people can pursue their own happiness.

and as long as long as walls exist in our hearts to separate us from those who don't look like us or think like us or worship as we do, then we're going to have to work harder together to bring those walls of division down. peace with justice means free enterprise that unleashes the talents and creativity that resides in each of us. in other models, direct economic growth from the top down. rely solely on the resources extracted from the earth. but we believe that real prosperity comes from our most precious resource, our people. and that's why we choose to invest in education and science and research. and now as we emerge from

recession, we must not avert our eyes from the insult of widening inequality or the pain of youth who are unemployed. we have to build new ladders of opportunity in our own societies that, even as we pursue new trade and investment that fuels growth across the atlantic, america will stand with europe as you strengthen your union. we want to make sure that every person can enjoy that comes from work whether they live in chicago, athens or madrid, everybody deserves opportunity. we have to have economies that are working for all people, not just those at the very top. peace with justice means extending a hand to those who reach for freedom. wherever they live.

different people and cultures will follow their own path, but we must reject the lie that those who live in distant places don't yearn for freedom and self-determination like we do. that they don't somehow yearn for dignity and rule of law just like we do. we cannot dictate the pace of change in places like the arab world, but we must reject the excuse that we can do nothing to support it. we cannot shrink from our role of advancing the values we believe in. supporting afghans as they take responsibility for their future or working for an israeli/palestinian peace. or engaging, as we've done in burer berma, to help people emerge from decades of dictatorship. in this century, these are the citizens who long to join the

free world. they are who you were. they deserve our support for they, too, in their own way, are citizens of berlin. and we have to help them every day. peace with justice means pursuing the security of a world without nuclear weapons. no matter how distant that dream may be. and so as president, i've strengthened our efforts to stop the spread of nuclear weapons and reduce the number and role of america's nuclear weapons. because the new start treaty we're on track to deploy nuclear warheads to their lowest levels since the 1950s. but we have more work to do. so, today i'm announcing additional steps forward. after a comprehensive review,

i've determined that we can ensure the security of america and our allies and maintain a strong deterrent while reducing our strategic weapons by up to one-third. and i intend to seek negotiated cuts with russia, to move beyond cold war nuclear postures. at the same time, we'll work with our nato allies to seek bold reductions in u.s. and russian tactical weapons in europe and forge a new international framework for peaceful nuclear power, reject the nuclear weaponization that north korea and iran may be seeking. america will host a summit in 2016 to continue our efforts to secure nuclear materials around the world and we will work to build support in the united

states to ratify the comprehensive nuclear test band treaty and call all nations to begin the reduction of nuclear weapons. these are steps we can take to create a world of peace and justice. peace with justice means refusing to condemn our children to a harsher, less hospitable planet. the effort to slow climate change requires bold action and, on this, germany and europe has led. in the united states we have recently doubled our renewable energy from clean sources like wind and solar power. doubling fuel efficiency on our cars and dangerous carbon emissions have come down, but we know we have to do more. and we will do more.

with a global middle class consuming more energy every day, this must now be an effort of all nations, not just some. for the grim alternative affects all nations. more severe storms, more famine and floods, new waves of refugees, coastlines that vanish, oceans that rise. this is the future we must divert. this is the global threat of our time and for the sake of future generations our generation must move toward a global compact to confront a changing climate before it is too late. that is our jobp. that is our task. we have to get to work. peace with justice means meeting our moral obligations.

and we have a moral obligation and a profound interest in helping lift the impoverished corners of the world by promoting growth so we spare a child born today a lifetime of extreme poverty, by investing in agriculture so we aren't just sending food but also teaching farmers to grow food, by strengthening public health so we aren't just sending medicine but training doctors and nurses to help children dying from preventable diseases. making sure that we do everything we can to realize the promise, an achievable promise, of the first aids-free generation. that is something that is possible. if we feel a sufficient sense o be more than just charity. they're models of empowering

people, to build institutions, to aban dot rot of corruption, to create ties of trade, not just aid, both with the west and among the nations that are seeking to rise and increase their capacity. because when they succeed, we will be more successful as well. our fates are linked. we cannot ig for those who are yearning not only for freedom, but also prosperity. and finally, let's remember that peace, with justice, depends on our ability to sustain both the security of our societies and the openness that defines them. now, threats to freedom don't merely come from the outside. they can emerge from within. from our own fears, from the disengagement of our citizens. for over a decade, america's

been at war. yet much is now changed. over the five years since i last spoke here in berlin. the iraq war is now over. the afghan war is coming to an end. osama bin laden is no more. our efforts against al qaeda are evolving, and given these changes last month i spoke about america's efforts against terrorism and i drew inspiration from one of our founding fathers, james madison, who wrote "no nation could preserve its freedom in the midst of continual warfare." james madison is right, which is why even as we remain vigilant about the threat of terrorism, we must move beyond the mindset of perpetual war and in america that means redoubling our efforts to close the prison at guantanamo. it means --

[ applause ] it means tightly controlling our use of it technologies like drones, it means balancing the pursuit of security with the protection of privacy, and i'm confident that balance can be struck. i'm confident of that. and i'm confident that working with germany, we can keep each other safe while at the same time maintaining those essential values for which we fought for. our current programs are bound by the rule of law and they're focused on threats to our security, not the communications of ordinary persons. they help confront real dangers and they keep people safe here in the united states and here in europe. but we must accept the challenge that all of us in democratic

governments face, to listen to the voices who disagree with us, to have an open debate about how we use our powers and how we must constrain them and to always remember that government exists to serve the power of the individual and not the other way around. that's what makes us who we are and that's what makes us different from those on the other side of a wall. that is how we'll stay true to our better history, while reaching for the day of peace and justice that is to come. these are the beliefs that guide us, the values that inspire us, the principles, that bind us together as free peoples, who still believe the words of dr.

martin luther king, jr. that injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere, and we should ask, should anyone ask if our generation has the courage to meet these tests, if anybody asks if president kennedy's words ring true today, let them come to berlin, for here they will find a people who emerged from the ruins of war to reap the blessings of peace. from the pain of division to the joy of reunification, and here they will recall how people trapped behind a wall braved bullets and jumped barb wire and dashed across mine fields and dug from tunnels and leapt from buildings and swam across the strait to claim their most basic right of freedom.

the wall belongs to history. but we have history to make as well. and the heros that came before us now call to us to live up to those highest ideals to care for the young people that can't find a job in our own countries and the girls who aren't allowed to go to school overseas. to be vigilant in extending a hand to those reaching for freedom abroad. this is the lesson of the ages. this is the spirit of berlin and the greatest tribute we can pay to those that came before us is by carrying on their work to pursue peace and justice, not only in our countries, but for all mankind. god bless you. god bless the peoples of germany and got bless the united states of america. thank you very much.

>> all right. president obama just done speaking to the people of berlin at the bradenburg gate where that wall came down so many years ago, talking about freedom and talking about the reduction in the nuclear arsenal. let's talk about the president's speech. let's head first to berlin, jessica yellen is there. the president, the crowd was receptive. i kind of like the way the president began his speech by taking off his jacket because it must be very hot in berlin today. >> it is exceptionally hot here, carol, and the president ins his shirt sleeves assuming a relaxed look and saying it was part of his comfort with the german people. what a powerful sight to see an american president standing on the east side of the bradenburg gate, a place he could only stand now after kennedy and reagan had to stand on the other side because a wall stood there

separating the city and that wall has now come down. remarkable this speech because of the difference between the obama of five years ago who spoke not far from that location and the president obama speaking today. when he came to berlin five years ago, the president talked about the values he hoped to bring back -- the american values he hoped to bring back if he were elected president and returning the gleam of america in europe's eye. so much had happened after president bush came into office and so much anger had developed in europe. the president said he would repair america's image. well, now the president has disappointed many europeans during his time in office by continuing the drones program, continuing gitmo, this nsa surveillance program, and today we heard the president lay out his values and his vision and

explain to both people in europe and i'd argue back home in the u.s. what his true vision has been as president and what it will be going forward. you heard him talk about his embrace of gay rights and his embrace of gender rights. you heard him talk about economic opportunity for all and you heard him embrace nuclear disarmament which has been his chief foreign policy priority from the day he first came into the senate. he said that was going to be a priority for him in the state of the union address earlier this year and he has made good on it in the speech even if it's unlikely to come to pass. but the big theme here, carol, is president obama speaking finally at the bradenburg gate where he wanted to speak five years ago but angela merkel said no, that's for sitting presidents, i'm not wading into presidential politics, and laying out his vision and his values for the next five years. carol? >> you can't help it because then candidate obama did speak

in germany not far from the bradenburg gate and we have pictures so you can see the difference in the crowd size. screen left, going to go screen left, see the crowds today in berlin at the bradenburg gate. couple of thousand people. but you can see in 2008, how many people in germany turned out to see this fresh, new politician from america, speak to the masses. it is 10:00 eastern. i want to tell our viewers joining us where we are. i'm carol costello. k welcome to newsroom. president obama gave a historic speak at the bradenburg gate the place where the wall came down, separating east and west germany and uniting the country. president reagan gave the famous speech where he said, mr. gorbachev tear down the wall. president kennedy gave a historic speech before him. president obama took the stage to the delight of the crowd. it's very hot in berlin right now. the first thing he did is took off his jacket and rolled up his sleeves an invited the crowd to do the same thing.

the crowd will be loved that, gave him a huge round of applause. talked about michele obama and his daughters, they didn't come to the speech because they're enjoying the beauty of your country. the crowd loved that. the bulk of his speech was made up, he was talking about the nuclear arsenal. and i'm talking about the nuclear arsenal all over the world and how he wants to cut deployed nuclear weapons by up to one third and also said the united states wants to host a 2016 summit on securing atomic material and he also called on russia to move beyond cold war postures. he touched on other topics as well, and i would like to go to gloria borger to talk about that. gloria, the president did touch on gitmo and, you know, the state of perpetual war the world seems to be in right now. he touched on those topics and moved on. >> it's interesting to me that the president of the united states has to go to berlin, which is a lace of great history

at the bradenburg gate, to give a speech with such a sweep that -- of his overall goals, as president of the united states in a perfect world. i mean he spent a lot of his time reminding us where we have been in this world and how far we still need to go. this is a president who he adopted the rubric of overall he spoke frequently in the speech about something he called peace with justice and over and over again, whit was the nuclear weapons reduction, energy policy, climate trade, human rights, the importance of freedom all over the globe, this is a president who kind of stood back from the issues that he has to deal with every single day in the united states, whether it's the economy, immigration reform, everything else, and said, this is what we need to think about as a world. in a way to me, it was oddly

similar what we did five years ago not at the bradenburg gate but down the road, because he spoke about a world in which he would like to live and how it should change. he also talked about and he's spoken about this in america is how we have to move beyond the mindset of perpetual war. that's when he spoke about closing down guantanamo, when he spoke about balancing liberty and security. so those are the real world issues that he kind of brought into this. the problems that he's had to deal with. but mostly i think it was a president who wanted to kind of put down a stake and say, like jfk, like ronald reagan, i share their values as an american president and these are the things i feel like i need to talk to you about today as an american president. >> interesting. i thought he would get into -- a little more into the privacy issue. i want to ask dana bash about

this topic. if you read the german newspapers german people are upset about the nsa controversy going on in the united states and the collection of this internet data because they feel that they're targets and, you know, east germany was once a communist state, they had secret police there, they collected information, they spied on people. this is disturbing to the german people. >> oh, it absolutely is, and the president did address it earlier in the day when he had a press conference with the german chancellor angela merkel, he was very defensive of the program, insisted it would continue and tried to explain to the german people just like he's been doing here in the united states why he thinks it's critical to have these programs continue, to keep people safe, and that their privacy isn't really intruded on that much. but i think just to pick up what gloria said, what was so striking to me from my perch now on capitol hill, and watching the president have these skirmishes every day with important legislative issues he wants to have for his legacy, this is taking it up to 10,000,

20,000 feet, this is a legacy speech with regard to his hopes, his dreams, his aspirations, never mind the realities that he has to deal with here on capitol hill and down the street at the white house every single day. i mean this is what presidents do when they're abroad, especially when they're trying to sort of give a message to a continent like europe, a country like germ my, about where america stands and when somebody like barack obama, who knows that the idealistic politician who wanted to be president, who got people to come in droves, hundreds of thousands of people, is still that same guy despite his difficulties in translating that campaign rhetoric to governing. >> all right. dana bash, gloria borger, jessica yellen, thanks so much. dana talked about the realities back home. let's talk about one of the realities. let's turn our attention to capitol hill where the outgoing head of the fbi is in the hot seat. fbi director robert mueller just

began testimony before the senate judiciary committee and this is an oversight hearing into his agency. he will likely be grilled on the fbi's involvement into the government's sweeping surveillance activities. we're monitoring his testimony and we'll bring you any developments that come out of this hearing. mueller's visit comes as lawmakers get a chance to see if classified documents -- to see a classified document in private that details more of the terrorist plots claimed to be stopped by those secret surveillance programs. that document will include information on a 2009 plot to bomb the new york city subway system. najibullah zazi confessed to that attack. also a foiled attack on the new york stock exchange and a foiled attack on the danish newspaper predicting the pro fed muhammed and also opening a case by the nsa because of what analysts say they uncovered. the u.s. was able to disrupt some sort of terrorist activity.

karen greenberg is the director for the center of national security at fordham university. thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> today the nsa will turn over secret documents to the senate intelligence committee and they'll look at these documents and hopefully they'll discover 50 thwarted terror plots because of this nsa program. will the public ever get to see these documents? >> unlikely that the public will get to see these documents. they may get to see parts of them, but i think the larger question is, will congress know how to interpret those documents? meaning that there are a lot of facts and trails that go into creating an investigation of an alleged terrorist. and to connect the dots and to know what actually led to discovery, arrest, indictment, et cetera is very difficult and to say that the nsa surveillance program is what actually led to

detecting and arresting these individuals may prove hard in some of the cases. it may not prove hard in two of the cases you mentioned, the david headley case or the najaf beulah zazi case. there has to be some degree of skepticism about just what they uncover and it may be that they uncover what many have suspected for a long time that follow terrorism trials, which is that there is sometimes very scant involvement on the part of the individual targeted and the individual surveilled about the specifics and in particular, we might find out in the new york stock exchange case. >> the nsa can't come out exactly and say this is just one tool we use. they need to make this program very important to their investigations in order to keep it going? >> right. i think that's right. and it can be one of their tools. the problem with this program as we're finding out about it is

that it is so much broader, it covers such a wide swath, it is not really about targeting individuals, it's about trying to find a need until a haystack. you have to ask yourselves too questions, one the constitutional issues and are people protected in this kind of surveillance program, and two, the issue of is this really the best way to go about finding terrorists. is more information and what we could call clutter you have to sift through, really the way to go about finding those people who threaten to harm us. >> karen greenberg, i'm sure we'll be talking to you again on this topic. thanks so much for joining us this morning. >> thanks for having me. >> also this morning, america's tireless fight over fat, obesity. the american medical association now says obesity is a disease, a disease. that means a lot of americans are sick. more than one third of u.s. adults are obese and 17% of children between the ages of 2 and 19 are obese.

that's nearly triple the rate of childhood obesity since 1980. obesity-related health care costs are estimated between 147 and $210 billion per year. dr. sanjay gupta is here to talk about the ama's decision. so, sanjay, the ama says obesity is a disease like heart disease or cancer or something like that? >> yeah. i mean, you know, when something is called a disease like this, i think it is more than just semantics which i guess you're alluding to, carol. you can think of it like cancer or diabetes. i think what it means for the medical community, potentially, is that they can now spend more time, perhaps counseling patients, so they may get more reimbursements, for example, for that sort of thing and that may drive some more treatments for obesity, but it also could increase research in funding toward obesity. look, this is no secret, you know, this has been a problem for some time, although those numbers you share ready startling to look at.

one way to look at this is think about the it as how we used to think about smoking and driving safety several years ago. when you started thinking about smoking in this way, it led into all these interventions towards smoking, led to public smoking bands, things like that, driver safety led to air bags and seat belts. you may think obesity more in that category. the ama can't say it's a disease specifically, they don't have that authority, but it's a strong signal to the medical community. >> some people say it might have the opposite effect. it might, you know, if you're -- it's difficult to lose weight. it is. let's say you are obese and now you know you have a disease, that you won't exercise or eat right because you have these disease, it's not your fault? >> yeah. i think that is certainly possible and frankly that happens now, carol. i mean, there's certainly a lot of interest and will continue to be a lot of interests in all

sorts of tactics for medications to operations to quick fixes to try to address obesity. but carol, i think your point is a good one. this whole notion of how much of this is personal responsibility and how much of this is a disease, as you said, like cancer that, you know, is completely out of your control? i don't think the ama is answering that question, but clearly by saying that we're going to think of obesity as a disease, it seems more toward -- less of the personal responsibility, more of the we know fat cells in the body behave differently, we know it's difficult to lose weight, we know once you have a tremendous amount of fat cells in your body it's not just the extra weight but they secret inflammatory cells and other problems. obesity is related to every chronic disease almost you can imagine, heart disease, diabetes, arthritis, this is the root cause they're trying to label as a disease so the root cause can be addressed. >> dr. sanjay gupta, thank you so much for being with me this morning. i appreciate it. >> you got it.

don't miss sanjay's show saturday at 4:30 eastern and sunday mornings at 7:30 eastern. almost 17 years since twa flight crashed off long island killing all 230 people on board. now the producers of a new documentary say they have solid proof that the cause is not what federal investigators have been telling us all these years. cnn's rene marsh has been looking into these claims and she's live in washington. good morning. >> good morning, carol. there is a twist this morning in this case, one of the deadliest plane crashes in u.s. history, and now some of the former investigators who handled the evidence at the scene say they have proof this was not an accident. >> reporter: it was a crash as horrific as it was mysterious. twa flight 800 explodes in midair in 1996 off the coast of long island. >> blew up in the air and then we saw two fireballs go down to the water. >> reporter: all 230 on board

the 747 dead. the cause, after a four-year, 17,000 page ntsb investigation, a spark from faulty wiring leading to the center fuel tank. but now six retired members of the original investigation team are breaking their silence. in a new documentary, they are challenging the ntsb's findings and calling for the investigation to be reopened. >> i was convinced that the part had been damaged by a high explosion because of the entrance hole and the exit hole. >> reporter: these former investigators, whose credentials range from the ntsb, twa, airline pilots' union and forensic experts, now claim that radar and forensic evidence shows the wiring was not the cause of the crash. >> what would your analysis have been? >> the primary conclusion was the explosive forces came from

outside the airplane, not the center fuel tank. >> would that statement have been in your analysis? >> if i got the right one. the agenda was, that this is an accident, make it so. >> reporter: these investigators say that the evidence they examined proves that one or more explosions outside the aircraft caused the crash. however, they don't speculate about the source of the explosions. among the theories considered and rejected by the ntsb at the time, was that a missile was responsible. the filmmakers plan to petition the ntsb to reopen the investigation. in a statement, the ntsb left that possibility open if new evidence is uncovered, saying investigators and staff spent an enormous amount of time reviewing documenting and analyzing facts and data while the ntsb rarely reinvestigates issues that have already been examined, our investigations are never closed and we can review

any new information not previously considered by the board. now, carol, i spoke with one of the documentary producers today and he admits victim family reaction to the film has been mixed. it premiers next month on the 17th anniversary of the crash. carol? >> all right. rene marsh, reporting live from washington this morning. coming up next in the newsroom, imagine you're on a plane and there's a report of a tornado on the runway. oh, it happened in denver. wait until you see where passengers had to go. [ male announcer ] this is george. the day building a play set begins with a surprise twinge of back pain... and a choice. take up to 4 advil in a day or 2 aleve for all day relief. [ male announcer ] that's handy. ♪

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the second time in six weeks a story of an ohio woman and her daughter free after accusations they were held captive in a home for more than a year. pamela brown is live in ashland, ohio, with more. good morning. >> good morning to you, carol. so many disturbing details in this case. according to federal authorities, a mother and child were held against their will, forced to endure unspeakable horrors. we spoke to a defense attorney for one of the suspects moments ago and he says this is not an open and shut case. >> reporter: inside this house, an ohio woman and her child, deprived of their freedom, dignity and basic needs, for a year and a half according to federal authorities. >> these individuals deprived this woman and her child of the most fundamental of american rights, freedom. >> this case is nothing less than a case of modern day slavery. >> reporter: 26-year-old jordie call la lan, his girlfriend 31-year-old kes jessica hunt and their friend daniel brown all

charged with imprisoning a mentally disabled woman only identified as "s.e." and her child. prosecutors say "s.e." was force dodd household chores and threatened with pit bulls and a python and according to a law enforcement source she and her daughter were sometimes forced to eat dog food. >> talking about people who were locked in rooms, forced to work all the time. people who were threatened and beaten and injured. >> reporter: according to court documents, "s.e." was also questioned at gunpoint and one of her alleged captors took out his knife and threatened to cut her finger off. medical records show "s.e." visited the emergency room at least three times, between 2011 and 2012, with a variety of injuries. ashland police say they were tipped off after "s.e." was arrested for trying to steal a candy bar. when police showed up at the home, callahan allegedly showed them video of "s.e." beating her daughter. but "s.e." says she was forced to do so by callahan and hunt. on "piers morgan's" show

callahan's mother denies the allegations. >> the girl, the supposed victim, had went where she wanted to go, wherever she wanted to go. >> reporter: this comes op the heels of another disturbing kidnapping case in nearby cleveland. the shocking rescue of three women held for a decade by ariel castro. both of these cases of alleged abuse, stunning their neighbors, left wondering how this could be happening in their backyards. and a law enforcement source that we spoke with says the victims knew the suspects before they were held captive. according to the defense attorney, edward brian, who represents hunt, his -- he says that his client was simply helping the victim, giving her a stable place to live so she could regain custody of her child. he says that his client unequivocally denies the allegations. still a lot to learn in this story, but authorities are saying more charges could be on the way soon. we have to see what happens. >> pamela brown, reporting live from ashland, ohio.

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stimulus is doing. $85 billion a month. that can't go on forever. every time the economy shows a little bit more strength, a little bit more stability, the questions arise, will ben bernanke and crew slow down the trickle of money coming into the economy and what will happen? so what they will be doing today is weighing things that are going right in the economy. housing is recovering, the job market, we're adding about 190,000 jobs a month on average this year, inflation is under control, consumer spending is rising, but we still have high long-term unemployment, still have slow economic growth, we still have a stock market that many people say has been push, push, push by all this money that ben bernanke and crew have been flooding into the market. they have to weigh all of these things and decide when they're going to start to taper back on that stimulus and that's why you get people so nervous. now they're calling it the taper. the "it" word on wall street is the taper. what will he say about it. first you had t.a.r.p., sequester, fiscal cliff, the new

one now is the taper. it will matter to your 401(k). it really does. if he does it right it will matter. >> what does it mean for investors. >> they have to do it absolutely right. they have to do it when the economy is strong enough to handle it, when markets are strong enough to handle it. if they don't do it properly it means interest rates could rise and could rise sharply, higher mortgage rates, higher interest rates, higher credit card rates, car loan rates. if they don't do it just right it could spook the stock market. you could see your 401(k) take a little hit. these are kinds of if the fed slows the stimulus and it's clumsy and they don't do it well, what you're seeing on your screen what is could happen. that's what is so interesting about the market right now, the stock market, carol. because when you see signs of economic strength, stock investors get worried. it means the fed is going to pull back on its stimulus. signs of economic strength are actually hurting the stock market. now, isn't that crazy? it sounds crazy. >> oh, my gosh. >> signs of weakness in the

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caterpillars and the bulldozers cut big lines in this fire, but this summer with the heat and the lack of humidity we have, it's going to be a long, hot summer of fire. >> reporter: fires this big, this early, not supposed to happen. >> oh, my god. wow. >> reporter: here in the foothills of yosemite national park, more than a thousand families evacuated. 2200 firefighters working round the clock to protect homes and the national treasure. tinder, dry conditions feeding the wind-fueled fires about everywhere. near prescott, arizona, fires spread rapidly creating panic and more evacuations. across the west, historic levels of severe and extreme dryness, even large chunks of exceptional dryness, that's more extreme than extreme. >> this is kind of unprecedented seeing this kind of dryness this early with a longer summer coming. again this is gs june.

we're seeing things you see in august. >> reporter: so many fires already in california, smoke drifting east into clark county in las vegas, prompting air hazard alerts. >> at one point it looked like a volcano, and i was like whoa. >> reporter: paul very vass guess and his personal command center. you might know him better as bear. this fire burned the mountain that made him famous. >> oh, my god. oh, my god. >> reporter: he too lives at yosemite's doorstep, ordered to evacuate, he says he's going nowhere. >> this place is in your soul, isn't it? >> yeah. that's true. i feel like i'm the protector of this land. >> yeah. >> and it's a very powerful place and now it's very famous. >> reporter: here in free spirit, california, a season of fire, and the official fire season hasn't even begun. i still can't believe that i actually met bear. on this fire a couple data points for you. yosemite national park, it is

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killed jimmy hoffa with a shovel and buried him alive, put a concrete block on top of him and then piled dirt on top. you can see the areas where they've been digging. buildings used to stand in those spots and they thought maybe jimmy hoffa was underneath that. but apparently no remains have been found. poppy harlow, you were in that press conference that took place moments ago. what did investigators say? >> carol, another search for jimmy hoffa. this has confounded the fbi for nearly four decades is over. fbi special agent in charge robert foley just coming out, speaking to the media, saying, quote, of course we are disappointed but saying after two plus days of diligent searches, on about one acre of land, an hour outside of metro detroit, they have found nothing that points them to the body of jimmy hoffa. they used cadaver dogs, they

used big bulldozers. they found nothing. also, some other officials that spoke with him spoke about all the criticism the fbi has received about the costs of searching, time and time again. i know you've covered this in the past, carol, searching for jimmy hoffa, saying those comments should be dispelled, saying they always consider the cost benefit analysis of these searches. remember, carol, the fbi called this tip highly credible. law enforcement source said this is highly credible. the tip, why they dug here starting monday, came from 85-year-old tonyzerilli. he's an alleged former underboss here in detroit. he called himself a close friend of jimmy hoffa. he apparently went to the authorities within the last year saying that hoffa was driven from a restaurant outside of detroit, here on july 30th, 1975, to this field, then struck over the head with a shovel and

buried alive, cement placed over his body. that is zerilli's story. but the fbi found nothing of the sort here, carol. >> okay. so i know they found nothing, but is it possible, since it's been such a long time, that hoffa's body was possibly here and they just can't find it? >> they don't believe that. they really -- you know, they were just asked in the press conference and they said we have no reason to believe his remains are here. my colleague susan candiotti on the ground covering it, talked to an expert after this many years, almost 40 years later, what would remain and they said you would likely still have some bones. the body would likely not be fully disintegrated. so that points it to the fact that the amount of searching they did digging and digging in this area, caused them to call this off. they could have gone all week but they chose to stop now. i will tell you, carol, the warrant, the affidavit, the warrant for them to could thdo a

judge is shield and it's not cleared if that will be unsealed unless there is an indictment. we may not know the particulars of what told them that this was credible enough to go on this tip, to come here and dig. we may never know that and they can't discuss what is in that sealed warrant. >> all right. poppy harlow, reporting live from michigan this morning, so where is jimmy hoffa? it remains an enduring american mystery. we'll be right back. we know it's your videoconference of the day. hi! hi, buddy! that's why the free wifi and hot breakfast are something to smile about. book a great getaway now and feel the hamptonality

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52 minutes past the hour. time to check our top stories. tributes pouring in across social media for journalist michael hastings. hastings died in a car accident in los angeles. he was perhaps best known for a 2010 "rolling stone" profile on general stanley mcchrystal that eventually led to mcchrystal's resignation. hastings had been working for buzzfeed since last year when he was hired to cover president obama's re-election campaign. italy's highest court had said a jury mistakenly acquitted amanda knox for the murder of her roommate in 2007 and now we're finding out why. in a written filing the court said some evidence was ignored. the court has ordered a new trial but no word if knox will have to return to italy. quite the natural fireworks show, just southeast of mexico city. this active volcano erupted,

blasting ash and burning fragments nearly two and a half miles into the sky. mexican officials placed the area on alert and have restricted travel to the volcano's crater until local access roads. sports illustrated.com reports aaron hernandez has been questioned about a murder. a body was found about a mile from his massachusetts -- police don't consider hernandez a suspect, but a vehicle rented in hernandez's name is believed to be a key piece of evidence in that homicide investigation. it's the two most exciting words in sports, game seven. that's what we'll have in miami tomorrow night. the heat forced the ultimate match with a thrilling come-from-behind win over the san antonio spurs in the nba finals last night. cnn's rachel nickles witnessed it all in miami. wow, what a game. >> yeah, it really was terrific, carol. you know, lebron james even said it was the best game, by far, that he had ever been a part of. really, this is how dire things

were for the heat, with less than 30 seconds to go, the spurs were up by five points. fans started streaming to the exits, i don't know, trying to beat the traffic, figured the game was over, and security officials surrounded the court with yellow tape so they could present the championship trophy to the spurs and keep fans from rushing the court. well, guess what? lebron james and dwyane wade said they and their teammates saw that tape and said, you guys are planning our demise. it is not over yet and sure enough, it was not. ray allen sank that beautiful three-pointer. the heat went on to win in overtime. carol, i want to point out these doors behind me, because all the fans who left early, at least a bunch of them, must have heard on the radio that the game went into overtime, they rushed back on to this plaza, started banging on the doors trying to get back in. mostly not successful. but, hey, the heat won. >> you should be a true fan and stay to the bitter end.

exactly. so tell us about game seven. what are the questions for that game? >> yeah. you know, obviously people want to know, are the spurs going to be able to rebound. are the heat going to be able to keep this momentum up. really, the question on the internet is, will lebron wear a headband and the back story behind this is that lebron james always, always, always when he's on the court wears a headband. some of our male viewers might be able to relate. it's a little early, male pattern baldness. likes the headband, not only keeps the sweat off his face but covers the area up. he had his headband knocked off midway through the fourth quarter last night, did not put it back on, shocked his teammates, dwyane wade who's known him for ever said i've never seen him play that much of a game without a headband. he went into beast mode after the headband got knocked off. played a fantastic game from there on out. everyone even inside the heat locker room, headband, no

headband for game seven. >> lebron once scored 30 plus points, right? >> absolutely. so you got to think, maybe no headband. he was asked about it after the game and he kind of brushed it off. we'll find out. his teammates did not brush this off at all. they thought it was a big deal. >> i love when you said, should we say male pattern baldness? i'm sure lebron appreciated that. >> i want to be nice. >> i know. >> i would like to be kind because who can say, tell, whatever. but it's good. it's a definite one more point of interest in an already fascinating series. a little fun. got to have a little fun with this. it's sports. >> exactly. lebron is a big man. rachel, thanks so much. thank you for joining me today. i'm carol costello. cnn "newsroom" continues after a break. families are coming together to play, stay active, and enjoy the outdoors. and for the last four summers, coca-cola has asked america to choose its favorite park through our coca-cola parks contest.

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